August 13, 2008

Peace offering

We had a small emergency at home two weekends ago when an exposed portion of water pipe broke. My husband shut off the main valve and called me because I was still at work, and I managed to get hold of our plumbers who came home with me and they replaced the damaged section. Later that evening, our Korean neighbors called on us with a Mango Cream Cake from Red Ribbon. Turns out that the young children staying with them for several months were so intrigued by the coconuts on our tree (the adults said they don't have coconut trees in Korea), they started throwing stones to try to get one of the coconuts to fall. Of course, they missed and hit the pipe instead. The kids were too scared to tell me or my husband and waited for the adults to get home so they could talk to us. They also offered to pay for the repair. That was very nice of them and of the children. The kids could easily have said nothing and no one would have known. But they knew they were responsible and felt bad about what happened, and even though they were scared, they still admitted their mistake. I'm so proud of them.

About My Manila

Metro Manila is the largest urban center in the Philippines, composed of seventeen cities and municipalities with about twelve million people. Though I've lived here all my life, I have really just been to a few areas of its teeming 638 square kilometers. This is a photo blog of the Manila that I experience everyday and, occasionally, of other places we go to. I hope you like my Manila. Despite its many flaws, I do.

City Daily Photo

About Me

Nothing makes me happier than staying at home, curled up in bed with a good book or movie, or puttering around the house, but I can do so only for a few hours every week because I have a full-time, Monday to Saturday job.

Be nice please!

All the photos in this blog were taken either by me or my husband. I can't really stop you from using any of these on your own blog or website, but do please acknowledge the source of the image and let me know by leaving a comment or emailing me at happyinmanila2008 at yahoo dot com, and sending me the url of your site. I'd really appreciate it.

My Camera

Currently, I carry the tiny but wide-angle Canon Ixus 200 IS in my purse wherever I go, but I've also used the equally tiny Canon Ixus 80 IS and the Canon PowerShot A610 with the twist and swivel LCD viewfinder (which I miss terribly because it's perfect for street photography and "stolen shots"). Can you tell that I like small cameras?